Sponsored by:
Senator RICHARD J. CODEY
District 27 (Essex)
Senator PAUL A. SARLO
District 36 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD
District 6 (Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Extends transmittal date deadline for fiscal year 2010-2011 gubernatorial budget message to the Legislature from fourth Tuesday in February to March 16, 2010.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the budget message to be transmitted by the Governor to the Legislature for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the Governor shall transmit the budget message for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011 to the Legislature on or before March 16, 2010.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill extends the date by which the Governor's Fiscal Year 2011 budget message is to be transmitted to the Legislature from the fourth Tuesday in February to March 16, 2010. Current law provides that the budget message is to be transmitted on or before the fourth Tuesday in February. Similar extensions have been provided in the past for the first budgets of other Governors.